Resumen
This paper first seeks to understand success factors in established knowledge management models. The paper then prescribes a simplistic a three-stage model to understand or evaluate success factors in KM models: transfer, relationship and community. The model proposes a key factor in KM models is its transfer mechanics, which is directly related to the ability of community to form values and behaviors consistent to the natural rules or laws of the community of practice. The acceptance of the natural rules or laws form the mechanism or trust levels in an individual that grants them to access to internal knowledge sharing nodes. These nodes then seek externalization with communities of practice that are in alignment with their own core or noble values.